Vantaggi
People are very, very nice. There is some opportunity to learn. They are very flexible about working from home. The office is nice. They have free coffee and breakfast (nice breakfast not just bagels and cream cheese.) There is a meditation room, that nobody uses. Also- it looks real good on the resume. Head-hunters contact me all the time. 3 weeks vacation to start.
Svantaggi
Someone else posted that this company is paper trail obsessed. I couldn't have said it better myself. I feel like I don't work. I just CYA. (Cover Your A**) All work is done offshore. I am starting to think this company only has people working in the states so they can say to the clients, "that the work is being done onshore". It isn't. Almost all of the work is done by resources in India. And they make a lot of mistakes. In the two years I have worked there they have dwindled their staff sending more and more tasks over-seas. As for the paper trail - if it it isn't in an email, it is not valid, and it never happened. I spend more time composing emails, and documenting than actually producing work. I feel like I have to dumb down to do the work and their procedures are so intricate it can take months to learn. None of their procedures make any sense. People get fired a lot or laid off which is a little unsettling. The insurance benefits are very expensive and not very good. The training is dismal. It is stacks and stacks of ancient and out-dated documentation that you are left on your own to decipher. You are basically left to wing it and often nobody will help you. However, if your lucky. You can learn a lot. But I must say that I feel my skills have gone stale. The work is so mind numbing.
